Patents by Inventor John Ho
John Ho has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20260120509Abstract: A radar transmit antenna of a head mounted device transmits a transmission radar signal to a face-region. A radar receiver antenna of the head mounted device receives a return radar signal from the face-region. The return radar signal is matched to a selected expression signal included in a plurality of expression signals stored in an expression database.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2025Publication date: April 30, 2026Inventors: John Ho, Jiang Zhu, Wei Huang, Boon Shiu, Bruno Cendon Martin
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Patent number: 12582827Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 24, 2026Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYInventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
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Publication number: 20260024920Abstract: A wearable device including a physical processor and a textile band that is dimensioned to secure the wearable device to a user and that comprises an antenna. The wearable device also includes a coupler that communicatively couples the antenna to the physical processor. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2025Publication date: January 22, 2026Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: John Ho, Wenjing Su, Jiang Zhu
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Patent number: 12431632Abstract: A wearable device including a physical processor and a textile band that is dimensioned to secure the wearable device to a user and that comprises an antenna. The wearable device also includes a coupler that communicatively couples the antenna to the physical processor. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: September 30, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: John Ho, Wenjing Su, Jiang Zhu
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Patent number: 12400478Abstract: A radar transmit antenna of a head mounted device transmits a transmission radar signal to a face-region. A radar receiver antenna of the head mounted device receives a return radar signal from the face-region. The return radar signal is matched to a selected expression signal included in a plurality of expression signals stored in an expression database.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: August 26, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: John Ho, Jiang Zhu, Wei Huang, Boon Shiu, Bruno Cendon Martin
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Publication number: 20250252876Abstract: The disclosed system may include (1) a support structure, (2) a lens, mounted to the support structure, (3) a power source, and (4) a multi-microdevice unit, positioned on the lens, that includes a first microdevice powered by a first type of current, a second microdevice powered by a second type of current, and a microconverter. The power source may transmit the first type of current to the multi-microdevice where the first type of current is received by the first microdevice and by the microconverter. The microconverter may convert the first type of current, received from the power source, to the second type of current and transmit the converted second type of current to the second microdevice within the multi-microdevice unit. Various other wearable devices, apparatuses, and methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2024Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Yasuo Morimoto, Jiang Zhu, Kuan Pei Yap, John Ho
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Patent number: 12374940Abstract: A system comprising (1) a wireless charger configured to wirelessly transfer power within a coverage area, (2) a head-mounted display dimensioned to be worn by a user, wherein the head-mounted display is configured to obtain data indicative of a current position of the head-mounted display relative to the coverage area, and (3) at least one processing device configured to provide at least one indicator of an effective charging position for the head-mounted display relative to the coverage area based at least in part on the data. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Inventors: John Ho, Jiang Zhu, Duane Martin Evans, James Andrew Hammer
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Publication number: 20250124738Abstract: An apparatus that facilitates and/or supports sensing facial expressions for avatar animation may include an eyewear frame dimensioned to be worn by a user. This apparatus may also include a plurality of radar devices secured to the eyewear frame. The plurality of radar devices may be configured to transmit a signal toward a facial feature of the user and/or to receive the signal from the facial feature of the user. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Saeed Farsi, Boon Shiu, Wei Huang, Jiang Zhu, John Ho
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Publication number: 20240353532Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include (1) causing a radar component to emit one or more radar signals and (2) causing the radar component to analyze one or more return signals. Also disclosed is a method for forming a 3D liquid crystal polarization hologram optical element and a method for characterizing diffractive waveguides includes directing light onto a structure and measuring the diffracted light to capture at least one image of the structure. Lastly, disclosed is a method of pattering organic solid crystals and a method directing a beam of input light to a surface of an optical material to determine crystallographic and optical parameters of the optical material. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: John Ho, Jiang Zhu, Boon Shiu, Paurakh Rajbhandary, Yuge Huang, Lu Lu, Junren Wang, Mengfei Wang, Xiayu Feng, Zhexin Zhao, Steven Alexander-Boyd Hickman, Tingling Rao, Kimberly Kay Childress, Amir Shariffar, Sadegh Aghaei, Zhaoyu Nie, Prathmesh Deshmukh, Zhaocheng Liu, Raymond Smith, II, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Sawyer Miller, Hsien-Hui Cheng, Xuan Wang, Ali Altaqui, Zhuoliang Ni
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Publication number: 20240297443Abstract: A wearable device including a physical processor and a textile band that is dimensioned to secure the wearable device to a user and that comprises an antenna. The wearable device also includes a coupler that communicatively couples the antenna to the physical processor. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: John Ho, Wenjing Su, Jiang Zhu
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Publication number: 20240265732Abstract: A radar transmit antenna of a head mounted device transmits a transmission radar signal to a face-region. A radar receiver antenna of the head mounted device receives a return radar signal from the face-region. The return radar signal is matched to a selected expression signal included in a plurality of expression signals stored in an expression database.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventors: John Ho, Jiang Zhu, Wei Huang, Boon Shiu, Bruno Cendon Martin
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Patent number: 12015197Abstract: There is provided a metamaterial textile for providing wireless sensor network and method of designing such. The metamaterial textile comprising a sheet of metamaterial textile cut into a comb shape comprising long base with a plurality of metamaterial textile teeth extending along and from the base, wherein a gap is present between every two adjacent teeth, whereby, the metamaterial textile is configured to enable propagation of radio-surface plasmons wave along the metamaterial textile for providing wireless sensor network. The metamaterial textile is configured to control the height of the radio-surface plasmons wave by changing number of the metamaterial textile teeth, and changing dimensions of the metamaterial textile teeth and changing dimensions of the gaps.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPOREInventors: John Ho, Chee Keong Tee, Xi Tian, Pui Mun Lee
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Publication number: 20240154465Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to systems and devices for wirelessly transferring electrical power. In one scenario, a system is provided that may include a substrate and a transparent conductive material disposed on at least a portion of the substrate. The transparent conductive material may include electrical traces formed into the material, and those electrical traces may be configured to conduct electrical power. The electrical traces are shaped into antennas that are configured to wirelessly transfer or receive electrical power. Other mobile electronic devices and apparatuses are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: John Ho, Yasuo Morimoto, Boon Shiu, Wei Huang, Jiang Zhu
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Publication number: 20240123253Abstract: Wirelessly powered photodynamic therapy devices are disclosed and systems and methods using such devices are also disclosed. In an embodiment, a photodynamic therapy system comprises: an implantable illumination device comprising a light source configured to emit light having a spectrum which overlaps with an absorption peak of an absorption target and a receiver antenna coupled to the light source and configured to extract power from a radiofrequency power signal incident on the implantable illumination device; and a transmitter comprising an antenna, a powering module configured to generate a drive signal which causes the antenna to generate the radiofrequency power signal, and a dosimetry module coupled to the antenna and configured to detect a radiofrequency signal backscattered from the implantable illumination device and determine an indication of the power extracted by the implantable illumination device from the radiofrequency signal backscattered from the implantable illumination device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPOREInventors: John HO, Yong ZHANG, Akshaya BANSAL, Fengyuan YANG, Xi TIAN
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Patent number: 11896843Abstract: Wirelessly powered photodynamic therapy devices are disclosed and systems and methods using such devices are also disclosed. In an embodiment, a photodynamic therapy system comprises: an implantable illumination device comprising a light source configured to emit light having a spectrum which overlaps with an absorption peak of an absorption target and a receiver antenna coupled to the light source and configured to extract power from a radiofrequency power signal incident on the implantable illumination device; and a transmitter comprising an antenna, a powering module configured to generate a drive signal which causes the antenna to generate the radiofrequency power signal, and a dosimetry module coupled to the antenna and configured to detect a radiofrequency signal backscattered from the implantable illumination device and determine an indication of the power extracted by the implantable illumination device from the radiofrequency signal backscattered from the implantable illumination device.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPOREInventors: John Ho, Yong Zhang, Akshaya Bansal, Fengyuan Yang, Xi Tian
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Publication number: 20240042222Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
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Patent number: 11771911Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim
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Patent number: 11474601Abstract: In a described embodiment, a sensor-based communication apparatus (100) is disclosed. The communication apparatus (100) comprises a plurality of sensor nodes (112) associated with respective unique pulse signatures (200) and adapted to communicate with respective sensors (113) with each sensor (113) configured to generate a sensory signal (113a) in response to a respective stimulus (113b). Each sensor node (112) is triggered, upon receipt of the corresponding sensory signal (113a), to transmit the associated unique pulse signature (200) independently and asynchronously through a transmission medium (110) shared by the sensor nodes (112), and the unique pulse signatures (200) transmitted by the sensor nodes (112) being a representation (300) of a stimulus event associated with the stimuli detected by the corresponding sensors (113). A method and a communication medium are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: National University of SingaporeInventors: Chee Keong Tee, Wang Wei Lee, Kian Ann Ng, John Ho
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Publication number: 20210344109Abstract: There is provided a metamaterial textile for providing wireless sensor network and method of designing such. The metamaterial textile comprising a sheet of metamaterial textile cut into a comb shape comprising long base with a plurality of metamaterial textile teeth extending along and from the base, wherein a gap is present between every two adjacent teeth, whereby, the metamaterial textile is configured to enable propagation of radio-surface plasmons wave along the metamaterial textile for providing wireless sensor network. The metamaterial textile is configured to control the height of the radio-surface plasmons wave by changing number of the metamaterial textile teeth, and changing dimensions of the metamaterial textile teeth and changing dimensions of the gaps.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: John HO, Chee Keong TEE, Xi TIAN, Pui Mun LEE
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Publication number: 20210283406Abstract: Implantable devices and/or sensors can be wirelessly powered by controlling and propagating electromagnetic waves in a patient's tissue. Such implantable devices/sensors can be implanted at target locations in a patient, to stimulate areas such as the heart, brain, spinal cord, or muscle tissue, and/or to sense biological, physiological, chemical attributes of the blood, tissue, and other patient parameters. The propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated with sub-wavelength structures configured to manipulate evanescent fields outside of tissue to generate the propagating waves inside the tissue. Methods of use are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Ada Shuk Yan Poon, Alexander Jueshyan Yeh, Yuji Tanabe, John Ho, Sanghoek Kim